A vindication of the government of New-England churches. Drawn from antiquity; the light of nature; Holy Scripture; it's noble nature; and from the dignity Divine Providence has put upon it. / By John Wise, A.M. Pastor to a church in Ipswich. ; [Five lines of Scripture texts]
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A vindication of the government of New-England churches. Drawn from antiquity; the light of nature; Holy Scripture; it's noble nature; and from the dignity Divine Providence has put upon it. / By John Wise, A.M. Pastor to a church in Ipswich. ; [Five lines of Scripture texts]
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Wise, John, 1652-1725.
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Boston: :: Printed and sold by John Boyles, in Marlboro'-Street.,
MDCCLXXII. [1772]
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Church polity.
Congregational churches -- New England -- Government.
Local church councils.
Subscribers' lists.
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"A vindication of the government of New-England churches. Drawn from antiquity; the light of nature; Holy Scripture; it's noble nature; and from the dignity Divine Providence has put upon it. / By John Wise, A.M. Pastor to a church in Ipswich. ; [Five lines of Scripture texts]." In the digital collection Evans Early American Imprint Collection. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/N09928.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 8, 2024.
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CHAP.XXXI. Of the State of Man after Death, and of the Resurrection of the Dead.
THE bodies of men after death return to dust, and see ••orruption, but their souls (which neither die nor sleep) having an immortal substance immediately return to God▪ who gave them, the souls of the righteous being then made perfect in holiness, are received into the highest heavens, where they behold the face of God in light and glory, waiting for the full redemption of their bodies: And the souls of the wicked are cast into hell, where they remain in torment, and utter darkness, reserved to the judgment of the great day: Besides these two places of souls separated from their bodies, the scripture acknow|ledgeth none.
2. At the last day 〈◊〉〈◊〉 as are found alive shall not
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die, but be changed, and all the dead shall be raised up with the self-same bodies, and none other, although with different qualities, which shall be united again to their souls for ever.
3. The bodies of the unjust shall by the power of Christ be raised to dishonour; the bodies of the just by his Spirit unto honor, and be made conformable to his own glorious body.
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